India Army Major Avtar Singh- Perpetrator of Extrajudicial Killing – Roaming Free in California

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Dr. Fozia Lone

On 13th May 2011 I read a news item in Kashmiri local newspaper Greater Kashmir captioned ‘File status report on Major Avtar’s Extradition’.  The news stated that Court directed police to file a status report on the progress made in the extradition of Major Avtar Singh, accused in the killing of prominent lawyer and human [...]

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In Memoriam: Louis Henkin

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Dr. Fozia Lone

According to the report of the American Society of International law, a well-known scholar of international law, Professor Louis Henkin, has just passed away. It is more so sad for me as I agreed to write on Henkin’s work in the series called the Alumni of the Invisible International College that the International law Observer will soon start posting [...]

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Book Review: Solon Solomon, The Justiciability of International Disputes – The Advisory Opinion of Israel’s Security Fence as a Case Study

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Dr. Fozia Lone

Solon Solomon, The Justiciability of International Disputes – The Advisory Opinion of Israel’s Security Fence as a Case Study (Jerusalem: Wolf Legal Publishers, 2009) ISBN: 978-90-5850-437-1 By Dr. Fozia Nazir Lone Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong, fnlone@cityu.edu.hk Solon Solomon, in this book presents a comprehensive legal description on the justiciability of international disputes. [...]

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Book Review: Democracy Goes to War – British Military Deployments under International Law

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Dr. Fozia Lone

Nigel D. White, Democracy Goes to War – British Military Deployments under International Law (Oxford: OUP, 2009) ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921859-2  Nigel D. White, Professor of International Law at the University of Sheffield, in this book presents a clear doctrinal narrative on a very sensitive issue of the use of military force and peacekeeping.  The book specifically [...]

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Has Right to Self-determination Democratic Origin?

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Dr. Fozia Lone

The general reading on self-determination is unclear or perhaps silent on the issue whether right to self-determination has democratic pedigree.  Nonetheless this principle has been treated explicitly or tacitly by international scholarship having democratic claim.  Reviewing self-determination from historical perspective makes it clear that this sixteenth century principle emerged as a ‘revolutionary nationalist’ concept for [...]

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